I don't know what the problem is. Sendmail doesn't have this delay. I'm just trying to get exim to send as fast as
sendmail. Right now I'm having to send my big lists with sandmail on another computer.
"Tabor J. Wells" wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 03:20:18PM -0700,
> Marc Perkel <marc@???> is thought to have said:
>
> > One of my users is sending email with 1000 bcc: recipients. This user has no command line access. His messages
> > take over and hour to start. It seems as if it's waiting to do something (DNS?) before sending. Whatever it's
> > doing - I want to turn it off.
>
> If you turned off DNS lookups, how do you propose that the message be
> sent to it's recipients?
>
> Read section 3.5 of the spec to understand how Exim handles delivery of
> mail.
>
> You've probably got one or more addresses in the recipient list that have
> broken DNS configurations that are taking extremely long times to resolve
> or fail, or you've got a problem with your own DNS server(s) and are
> seeing delays as your system falls back to the next nameserver in
> resolv.conf
>
> Tabor
>
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> Tabor J. Wells twells@???
> Fsck It! Just another victim of the ambient morality
